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RE: what's a "nomen vanum"?

To: "'bettyc@flyinggoat.com'" <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>, "dinosaur@usc.edu"@usc.edu
Subject: RE: what's a "nomen vanum"?
From: Toby White <mwhite@houston.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:58:32 -0500
Reply-to: mwhite@houston.rr.com
Sender: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu

According to my Cassel's: "vain, idle, worthless, meaningless, fruitless or 
groundless."  (Hmmm.  Sounds like me when I was in high school.) 
 Alternatively, the original meaning: "shade, disembodied spirit."

  --Toby White

On Friday, October 15, 1999 3:16 PM, Betty Cunningham 
[SMTP:bettyc@flyinggoat.com] wrote:
> what's a "nomen vanum"?  I think this came across on the vert paleo list
> recently
>
> -Betty
> --
> Flying Goat Graphics
> http://www.flyinggoat.com
> (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology member)
> -------------------------------------------<,D,><

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